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Haha, the nachos and hot chocolate was in the hallway, the movie was in my room, because I have a huuuuge computer monitor and a desktop. The only person with a bigger screen is the guy 3 doors down who has a legit huuuuge tv screen. That or try and hook your laptop up to the tv in the common room...

Well I wish you the best of fortune sorting that situation out in the future. It would be a dreadful thing for such a wonderful blessing to cause strife in the family.

Yeah, hopefully I'll never have to suffer anything like it during my lifetime.

Originally Posted by Kneenibble

Nay sir: my backyard faces west, and my city is in the dead centre of the flatness of the Prairies in a never-ending orgy of the winds. Now my yard is small and befenced, and surrounded by other houses, so it's not quite as rugged as were it out in the country. All the same -- the grapes I grow are called Severnji, and they are incredibly hardy [to zone 3]. If they are available in Europe I am sure you could grow them there.

Backyards and urban areas as a whole tend to be warmer than the countryside, but yes, perhaps it could work.

Originally Posted by Kneenibble

Okay, I'll stop trying to vicariously work on your land now.

Naww, I was enjoying it...

Originally Posted by Kneenibble

I see. It must be quite a valuable piece of land. But I do not know well this word ness -- in what sense do you mean?

The "land tongue stretches out into a body of water" sense. Here, just type these coordinates into Google Maps/Earth and see for yourself:

62.302511,15.697571

The pictures are dad's, btw. We get some beautiful sunsets from time to time.

Clouddreamer Teddy by me, high above the world, far beyond its matters...

About Stone Avenue -- I mean are the stones megaliths, placed upright on purpose, or did they form somehow standing out like that naturally?

'twould be quite the coincidence if they were natural formations. No, definitely placed upright on purpose. I believe they're somewhere in the vicinity of the age of Stonehenge, and there's some very attractive shapes in the stones (one I took a photo of but didn't post here I think vaguely resembles a naked woman).

Originally Posted by Kneenibble

I will come visit you in Australia with a posse comitatus of fat budgies. We will be like your Cinderella animals, only more badass and you less locked in towers.

Heheh, that'd be neat. I think you'd like it here: in the last, say, two days I've seen scores of king parrots, crimson rosellas, bower birds, black cockatoos, white cockatoos, magpies, currawongs, ravens and kookaburras.

'twould be quite the coincidence if they were natural formations. No, definitely placed upright on purpose. I believe they're somewhere in the vicinity of the age of Stonehenge, and there's some very attractive shapes in the stones (one I took a photo of but didn't post here I think vaguely resembles a naked woman).

Extrapolating from my knowledge of other sites...

The Avenue likely served as a ceremonial track way from the site at Avebury to another prehistoric site, a place referred to as The Sanctuary.
Ultimately, Avebury served a ritual site, and people would come up the Avenue to the circles located there and perform ceremonies. Perhaps to appease gods or as ancestor worship. There is always the chance that Avebury was used as a sort of cemetary and the dead were carried up the Avenue as a symbolic last journey.

The "land tongue stretches out into a body of water" sense. Here, just type these coordinates into Google Maps/Earth and see for yourself:

The pictures are dad's, btw. We get some beautiful sunsets from time to time.

Wow! So beautiful. I like the winter shot especially.

Originally Posted by Serpentine

'twould be quite the coincidence if they were natural formations. No, definitely placed upright on purpose. I believe they're somewhere in the vicinity of the age of Stonehenge, and there's some very attractive shapes in the stones (one I took a photo of but didn't post here I think vaguely resembles a naked woman).
Heheh, that'd be neat. I think you'd like it here: in the last, say, two days I've seen scores of king parrots, crimson rosellas, bower birds, black cockatoos, white cockatoos, magpies, currawongs, ravens and kookaburras.

Well the stones are fascinating. One more reason to get my butt over to England.

Birds, birds, birds! I love it! So this many beautiful birds are usually just chilling around where you live?

Originally Posted by Elemental

Extrapolating from my knowledge of other sites...

The Avenue likely served as a ceremonial track way from the site at Avebury to another prehistoric site, a place referred to as The Sanctuary.
Ultimately, Avebury served a ritual site, and people would come up the Avenue to the circles located there and perform ceremonies. Perhaps to appease gods or as ancestor worship. There is always the chance that Avebury was used as a sort of cemetary and the dead were carried up the Avenue as a symbolic last journey.

I'm probably completely wrong however.
After all, with prehistoric sites, you can only be certain of their purpose when the site gives it away.
Ergo, Stonehenge aligning with the sunrise is a sure sign that it had at least something to do with sun worship.

They do in the UK. Although, granted, almost every person who had a carpeted bathroom tended to say "ugh, it's awful, why would they do that? I can't wait until I can afford to get it ripped up!" or something to that effect.

Originally Posted by Kneenibble

Well the stones are fascinating. One more reason to get my butt over to England.

They are very cool, and worth seeing.

Originally Posted by Kneenibble

Birds, birds, birds! I love it! So this many beautiful birds are usually just chilling around where you live?

Yes and no. I was just in another town for the weekend, going on bushwalks, so we were well away from where I'm living at the moment. Bower birds, in particular, you can really only find out in the bush, but we saw two males and a female hanging about the picnic areas (if you leave something blue out for them, often the males will take it back for their bower). On the other hand, black cockatoos, magpies, crows, eagles, kookaburras and often white cockatoos, king parrots and rosellas are common sights around here (and everywhere, really). My mum and her husband set themselves a challenge to see how many distinct bird species they could spot within a defined area (more or less the headland at one end of the beach, the sand dunes and around their house, down to iirc the surf club half-way down the other end of the beach). They got to 150ish.
You want I should post the pictures of birds I got this weekend?

Originally Posted by Elemental

I'm probably completely wrong however.
After all, with prehistoric sites, you can only be certain of their purpose when the site gives it away.
Ergo, Stonehenge aligning with the sunrise is a sure sign that it had at least something to do with sun worship.

No, that was pretty much what it said on the sign at Sanctuary (and I'd forgotten that was what it was called).

They do in the UK. Although, granted, almost every person who had a carpeted bathroom tended to say "ugh, it's awful, why would they do that? I can't wait until I can afford to get it ripped up!" or something to that effect.

I remember saying that at least a couple of times while you were staying at mine.

Originally Posted by Archonic Energy

Thanks KuReshtin, Chief Nerd-Hurder of the UKitP Clan.

Originally Posted by Teddy

KuReshtin too, because he's awesome and a Swede, and therefore double awesome.

So, I've got a request for the pictures of the bunkers in the bunker graveyard (as we call it) in Denmark, which we visited during our trip to Germany this summer. I've also snuck a picture from the bunker museum we visited earlier that day into the lot:

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First the picture from the bunker museum, taken from one of the shell rooms for the huge German coastal gun that once stood there. I just love how it looks like littlest brother has been stuffed into the artillery shell:
Me and my brothers comparing rocks we found on the beach:
In case you ever feel like taking the order to dig in a bit too seriously:
Authentic German grafitti. At least, that's what I like to think (although I see no reason to believe otherwise:
I'm still haven't figured out what way mum is connected to the Matrix, but there has to be some connection, right? Also, that bunker to the right is interesting. It's the same as the one in the picture with me and my brothers, and between those doors is just a straight tunnel open to both sides, with doors leading into a few side rooms. The interesting part is that in a small room behind one of those rooms, it was so dark that despite it being only ~140 cm wide, I could hide from and scare littlest brother as he entered, whereafter I then managed to jump past him as he tried to exact revenge upon me without him even managing to touch me:
I actually walked down there to inspect how it looked beyond the corner. There's a small hatch to the side through which great amounts of water was pouring in with each wave, and the waves themselves made a magnificent sound in those crammed compartments. The water was uncomfortably cold, however:
Me playing with a little insect I found among the sand:
A good overview of a part of the beach:
The bunkers had a lot of differing sizes. Here's one of the smallest and largest in the same picture:

Originally Posted by ThiagoMartell

But but I just posted some pictures

Don't read too much into it, the number of comments is a poor gauge of an image's worth. Sometimes, people just feel like talking about something else, or nothing all, or just space out for a few days, and the conversation moves on.

The first image I ever posted here got three comments (which still is pretty good, I gather). I posted it in the Random Banter thread a bit later for some reason or another (I think we were talking about fleece jackets, and I was wearing one in the picture), and they wouldn't talk about anything else for two pages! ()

Also, I think people actually are more prone to comment on a picture if it's taken in an interesting surrounding, or has an interesting story, or just is plain silly/weird in overall.

Also, when you only post pictures with several people in them, it kind of helps if you point out who's you in them so that we won't have to search through all images for the common divisor (i.e. the only person who's represented in all of them). This is especially important for those who post for the first time, but even regulars should do it every now and then to help any newcomers. After all, it's kind of hard to compliment you for your good looks if we don't know who you are in the pictures.

Clouddreamer Teddy by me, high above the world, far beyond its matters...

Wow Teddy, those are so weird (in the older sense of the word). You probably already said, but what's the story behind them?

I found a way-cool photo of my parents back in their uni days.

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Why yes, my parents were cooler than you. Thanks for noticing.

The reason I found that photo is because all the family hard-copy photo albums are at my mum's, where I'm staying now. I was talking to her about scanning them into my computer so we have electronic copies of a bunch of them.
So. Who wants to see baby-Serpy pictures?

*hugs*
If you're the one I think you are, then you are rather handsome.

Brazilian people almost all look exotic to me.

Originally Posted by Teddy

So, I've got a request for the pictures of the bunkers in the bunker graveyard (as we call it) in Denmark, which we visited during our trip to Germany this summer. I've also snuck a picture from the bunker museum we visited earlier that day into the lot:

They're only what, about 70 years old? - but something about them seems ineffably alien and ancient. They have weathered beautifully. I would go bananas exploring them.

I wonder how long that concrete can survive its exposure to brine and wind? I'd love to see that site in 100 more years.

Originally Posted by Serpentine

Wow Teddy, those are so weird (in the older sense of the word). You probably already said, but what's the story behind them?

I found a way-cool photo of my parents back in their uni days.

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Why yes, my parents were cooler than you. Thanks for noticing.

The reason I found that photo is because all the family hard-copy photo albums are at my mum's, where I'm staying now. I was talking to her about scanning them into my computer so we have electronic copies of a bunch of them.
So. Who wants to see baby-Serpy pictures?

Your dad is smoking hot

Originally Posted by MoonCat

Teddy, those are /awesome/. Pictures of my bunkers aren't very interesting form the outside, and it's too dark inside, so you'll just have to come over here.

Did you used to play MUSH games, out of curiosity? That's the only other venue I've seen people put /emphasis/ on words with slashes like that.

Originally Posted by Serpentine

Picture dump time! Again! I know how much you guys love these!

I do love them! I do!

Your nature gallery is titillating. It amazes me how mountains can be so different -- Bald Mountain is an entirely different kind of rock and biome than the mountains I visited in August. Also, your family is cute. :3

Thank you also for the bird service. Those kookaburras especially look like they badly need kisses on their fluff. All of them are just begging to be cuddled, really.